> Anyway, thanks for the heads-up and confirmation... Am I to read from
> the above statement that the new make behavior is indeed correct?

Yes and no.  There is a bug in make right now such that the command
line vars are not being quoted, but other than that the behaviour is
(as far as I know) correct - from a posix perspective anyway.

I'd hope to commit the fix today - unless someone objects to the
patch.

--sjg